Wednesday, September 21, 2016

"GREEN" is a Collage Collective Co
publication that features 50 collage artists in the first we’ve released
that explores a theme. Through the artist statements, works in this
publication display a connection to the word "green."

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

“1067 Mind Invasion” At The Observer Building, Hastings, UKMajor British Survey of Contemporary Collage : 500 Works On Exhibition

Private View – Friday 4 December, 2015 : 6.30 PM

HASTINGS, UK – “It could be the most extensive survey of British collage in the last 10 years,” says Liz Finch, organizer and artist for the 1067 Group’s major exhibition set to open with the private view on 4 December at 6.30 pm at The Observer Building in Hastings, UK. The exhibition features the work of 26 artists and runs through 20 December, 2015.

Following the success of the previous Hastings exhibition 10 years ago, the 1067 Group invades Hastings again, this time in a larger, more generous venue. Formerly comprised of East Sussex-based artists and designers, the 1067 Group has expanded to include a handful of internationally known collage artists. The range of works and magic woven by these artists, will clearly rival any London show surveying contemporary collage.

“Each artist will present some 20 works, with the sole restriction that each piece measure 15 x 15 inches square,” says Hastings artist Peter Quinnell. “The exhibition promises to be a high-quality survey with works ranging from a current interest in geometric abstraction and pop to surrealism and text-infused realism.”

Collage has become a medium as powerful and omnipresent as paint – or wood, metal, or stone sculpture. It is wildly versatile and is often used as an installation component or subject – think wallpaper. The use of printed images, photographs, paper or any material that can be fixed and attached to a canvas or paper support is often recombined in novel ways. Small details can be enlarged; the world explored in minutiae or in odd but meaningful scale. The results of collage works are often politically and sexually charged, and marry reality to fantasy in a way other mediums can’t easily do.

“For me, collage is another way of essay writing, of spelling, of producing a philosophical (realist) text,” says Paris-based American artist, Matthew Rose. “What is always compelling about collage is its capacity to stack and stagger meaning from a simple paper base. In the 1067 Mind Invasion exhibition, I use paint sample grids to discuss theology and technology.”

The Observer Building is in the heart of the Hastings Art District: Artists, illustrators, film makers, fashion designers often congregate in the commons areas, to meet, greet and exchange ideas that are making the British art world tick.

Michael Leigh, the British Fluxus & Mail artist from Manchester, notes that “The Observer Building is a magnet for artists and musicians experimenting every which way. One of the coolest places in England.” He points out that “1067” is a reference to the Battle of Hastings, which took place in 1066 and put the Norman French in control of the British Kingdom. “Of course, 1067 is a year late to the Norman Invasion party,” says Leigh.

The poster –1067 MIND INVASION – was designed by Martin O’Neill, renowned British illustrator in editorial and advertising.

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

People, a
brand new book of my drawings, is just out from Red Fox Press / Ireland.
More than 40 drawings, often with text, are included in this little
irreverent book that seeks to mete out the absurd, naming objects after
people and people after their worst tendencies.

My People
book is fun and funny and
essentially a kid's book for adults. I hope to turn the book into an
exhibition in 2016 (there are another 50 drawing that were unpublished).
The
edition is limited to 100, each copy is signed and dated.

Sunday, July 5, 2015

Let's just get Greece sorted

All this dithering over
Greece is getting boring. European ministers flexing their muscles and
posturing over whether they can help the Greek people of not. Why don't
we the people just sort it instead?

The European Union is home to
503 million people, if we all just chip in a few Euro then we can get
Greece sorted and hopefully get them back on track soon. Easy.

What We Need & What You Get

€1.6bn
is what the Greeks need. It might seem like a lot but it's only just
over €3 from each European. That's about the same as half a pint in
London. Or everyone in the EU just having a Feta and Olive salad for
lunch.

So come on, order a Feta and Olive salad, maybe wash it
down with an Ouzo or glass of Assyrtiko greek wine and let's sort this
shit out.
Pledge €3 and get a postcard sent from Greece of Alex Tsipras, the
Greek Prime Minister. We'll get them made and posted in Greece and give a
boost to some local printers and post offices.
Pledge €6 and get a greek Feta and Olive salad

Pledge €10 and get a small bottle of Ouzo sent to you
Pledge €25 and get a bottle of Greek wine

Is that really all it would take?

OK, it might be a short while
for the cash to get fully into the Greek economy, but hell - what is
there to lose? Another Tesco Meal deal? Ah well.

You get some tasty Greek things.
We promise that all profits will go to the Greek people and all products will be 100% Greek.

FAQs and Press/Media

Since this has been covered in the media
and gone fantastically well so far, I've been asked a lot of questions.
I've tried to answer some more below:

Who are you?
I'm 29 years old and from York, Yorkshire in the North of England but
live in Bethnal Green, London. I currently work in a shoe shop in
London. Is this a joke?
No. Crowdfunding can really help because it's just a case of getting
on and doing it. I was fed up of the Greek crisis going round in
circles, while politicians are dithering, this is affecting real people.
While all the posturing is going on, then it's easy for the politicians
to forget that. I just thought, sod it, I'll have a crack.

Why Greece?
This isn't just about Greece, but about the Greek people, the working
classes and trying to help other ordinary people across the world. If
governments, corporations or banks won't help, what can we do but band
together. If we don't reach that target, what a wonderful message it
sends out. It shows that whether you're a working class lad in
Yorkshire, Scotland or Athens other people around the world care about
you, even if your government has forgotten. You can make a difference.

It
shows that so many people care about giving to people when they need it
most, not kicking them while they're down. To help an economy recover
we need investment and stimulus, not cuts and austerity.

How has the campaign been received?
I've been overwhelmed by the response, it’s been incredibly positive.
I’ve received so many tweets, emails and messages of support and
thanks. I started the campaign as quite a practical endeavour, €3 from
everyone in Europe - that'll sort it. But it has really struck a chord
with so many people emotionally. I feel quite emotional about it all
myself now, I've had to have a sit down and a strong cup of Yorkshire
Tea!

Are you just making a statement/some kind of point?
This is a real attempt to do something. But at the very least it's
important to raise the issue of the plight of the Greek people at this
time. Not just the profiles of politiicians. We can help our Greek
cousins by buying wonderful Greek produce such as feta, olives, wine and
more. And maybe considering Greece as a holiday destination. That's
part of the idea behind each of the perks on the crowdfunding page.
Trade will help Greece and the Greek people out of their current
situation.

Have you been involved in Greek Politics before?
I've never been involved in Greek politics. I see the campaign as
more of a helping the Greek people than getting involved with politics.

Have you been in touch with European or Greek leaders.
I've not yet been in touch with any European leaders, but I heard a
rumour from a journalist that Mr Tsipras wanted to get in touch.

Do you have any link to IndieGoGo?
I've never been involved with IndieGoGo before.

What happens if you don’t make the target?
All the money is refunded. Hopefully we’ll make it though!

Are the products real or symbolic?
It’s not symbolic - all products would be sourced from Greece, made in Greece and sent from Greece.

Do you think Europeans are generous enough?
Europeans are pretty generous on the whole, maybe Ms Merkel and Mr
Cameron are the exception. There are 500 million people in the EU and
actually, it wouldn't cost each person much to just sort it out
ourselves. I'm confident the people of Europe will get this campaign and
some time soon we'll all be raising a glass of Ouzo and having a bloody
great big celebration.

What will happen to the money?
We promise that all profits will go to the Greek people. Whether that be via the government accepting it or by other means.

How can the Greek government accept your money?
That's one for IndieGoGo to help me with! Thought I suspect that
there'll be plenty of people, better qualified than I am, that would be
willing to help.

Do you think that you can reach the target?
I hope very much that the campaign will reach the target, I think it
will be a victory for people power. Yes it's a tall order but I truly
believe it can be effective, remember it's a very small amount per
person we're looking for.

Will you go to Greece to send the postcards?!
I'd love to go to Greece to send the postcards myself. The postcards
and salads would be put together in Greece, employing Greeks and
contributing to the Greek economy.

How much have you personally put in?
I've put in for a bottle of Ouzo, which is just €10 - if 1 in 3 Europeans did the same, we'd get to the target!

The paintings are other-worldly and rveolve around lunar landscapes, angelic children seemingly caught and in a time-space continuum. Me, My, Myth will be view until May 10th.

Me, My, Myth features more than a dozen new paintings and sculptures produced this year by McCumstie. The exhibition also includes a shadow installation and will be supported by archival material and collage works from the artist’s studio, highlighting his continued ability to invent works at the border between reality and the world of dreams.

“Brendan McCumstie invites us to take an exploratory journey," says Gallery director, Steven Sampliner. "It is a journey we are all oddly familiar with. We are presented with art works that allows us to view separation and union simultaneously. They are wonderfully strange, and endlessly intriguing.”

Born in 1973 in Australia, Brendan McCumstie spent the past three years living and working in both Paris and Beijing, enabling him to research the history of art from both sides of the globe, and place his own work within this expansive geo-political-social art-historical frame.

The results of McCumstie's on-going aesthetic research and practice chronicles the origin, meaning and ultimate changing of some unknown entity over time, be it a person, an idea, a country or a philosophy.

Brendan McCumstie : On Me, My, Myth

Etymology is the
study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and
meaning have changed over time, while Entomology is a unique process in
which you can preserve the original look of the bug species of your
choosing.The paintings bring to mind the ouroboros – the
tail-eating snake of history and mythology. Like the symbol of eternity
given by the encircled serpent these works can be seen as a cyclical
narrative of the origin, form, meaning and ultimate changing of some
unknown entity – be it a person, an idea, a country or a philosophy.
Which unique entity the viewer decides to choose and preserve in his or
her own thoughts is up to the individual.These are artworks
that attempt to formalize dreams of plenty, fears of loss and
reflections on a life; an idea of what it is like to collect, order and
enshrine the chaos of memory and imagination into something that
resembles verisimilitude.

Indecipherable Peace, 120 x 80 cm, 2015; oil on linen.

Intentionally attempting to undermine the alleged inability of a painted two-dimensional surface to portray movement, these strict compositions endeavor to control the imaginary world and entrap it within the visual physical world.Gertrude Stein quipped that things are either worthless or priceless - I do not desire these works to be pinned up like a dead butterfly to be admired but not investigated. I wish them to be a doorway to another realm; a space where the question posed leads the viewer to areas that they might not have gone alone.

Brendan McCumstie Interviewed by Steven Sampliner

When are you most productive?

The most productive period for me is night, when the streets go quiet, the moon rises and the darkness enshrines. I see that internalizing essence coming out within the paintings and works I produce.

Why China? Why Beijing?

I had been living in Paris previously, and whilst I love that city there were a number of considerations that brought me to Beijing.

Firstly the fact that Paris requires artists to be extremely well established before giving them an opportunity, and secondly the fact that to be truly rounded as an artist I believed it was necessary to investigate and appreciate the “eastern” aspects of fine art as much as the “western” canon.
I think “East” and “west” are merely atrophied vestigial labels in the contemporary art sphere, but it still exists as a division within the history of art, and that is what I am interested in just as much.
So, with the available options in front of me, Beijing was the obvious choice in terms of accessing a grand history and tradition stretching back millennia. To be a part of its current productive base is an amazing opportunity.

You often wear a tailored 3-piece suit, is it a necessity or a choice?

If you are going to do good work, then you must look and feel good. I enjoy dressing the part – even when creating a piece of work. There is something reinforcing about wearing a quality garment when producing a painting or sculpture. I find it a solemnizing act.

Where do you find your inspiration?

Daily life. The intentionally restricted colour palette in this series of paintings is derived from what I see each and every day in Beijing. I am bringing my eye to what surrounds me.

I feel sometimes that I am some extraterrestrial within a vast alien landscape, nevertheless, sometimes it is easier to see the earth from an alien perspective and, seen from the moon, we are all just artists and audience.

A Reinvention of Greek Tragedy, 2015, oil on linen, 100 x 80 cm.

It seems that a lot of your works have a mysterious element, like an unsolved puzzle left for the viewer to solve – both the viewers within the paintings and also the viewers in front of the paintings.

My constant battle is to open enough of a window in the artwork, to allow anyone to universally understand the possibilities inherent within the work as it relates to them on an individual basis.

Would you produce different art if you weren’t in China?

Anyone who is not influenced by his or her surroundings is possibly ignorant, immune or insulated. All three are, I believe, sad options to be avoided at all cost. As both an artist and viewer/observer it is impossible for me to prevent the tendrils extending from what exists around me to attach them selves to me. So of course my art would be developing in a different manner if I existed outside China, but the works I am producing, I believe still have a universality to them that works across cultures.

Have you ever done any portraits?

No, but I would like to try some commissions, and I have a very dear friend whom I intend to do a portrait of this year - an amazing indigenous Australian woman, who is so strong and doing fanastic things for her people and country. I admire anyone who has that drive.

Is art the creator of social change or merely a reaction to it?

I think art has the opportunity and obligation to be both. These current works also act as an observation of social change too.

Do you believe art to be a subject or an object?

I think that the object is the subject, irrespective of what that object is.

"The basis of the viractual conception is that virtual producing
computer technology has be-come a noteworthy means for making and
understanding contemporary art. This brings art to a place where one
finds the emerging of the computed (the virtual) with the uncomputed
corporeal (the actual)."
Website: http://www.nechvatal.net

My
text work, Tuscany, 2005, will be included (God willing the Postal
Service delivers them)... The pieces, a triptych, are essentially Bird,
Cloud, Sky (in Italian). Each canvas is 21.0 x 29.7cm, and is gouache on canvas.If you are interested in these works, please contact
here: TUSCANY.

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Monday, March 23, 2015

SOFT
FIX, 2015 is a soft core porn assemblage work in the American Peep Show
booth that is part of the Pressure Washing exhibition at Converge
Gallery. The crucifix, by American artist Matthew Rose, is made from prostitutes' calling cards, and
arranged in a grid to form a crucifix.

Reactions to the
work thus far have ranged from horrified to mystified to gorgeous to
outrageous, John Yogodzinksi, Converge Gallery director told me. "The
idea here is to literally cross up the male gaze with paid liberation," says Matthew Rose, "and examine the contradictions of desire, belief, consumer life and
private spiritual life."

Saturday, February 28, 2015

WILLIAMSPORT, PA – Converge Gallery
is pleased to present Matthew Rose’s small and intimate exhibition of
sometimes erotic, sometimes obscene, indecent, titillating, arousing,
risqué, adult works of art rife with bawdy double-entendres and
soft-core innuendo. This is the Paris-based American artist’s third solo
exhibition at Converge Gallery.

These
100 hand-cut and painted collage works on board and canvas skew towards
the suggestive with splashes of surrealist and pop sensibilities.
Along with additional pieces in sealed plastic arranged triple-x
magazine-style in a private “American Peep Show” viewing booth,
“Pressure Washing” provides a kind of lexica pornographica, a modest
pictorial thesaurus of contemporary pleasure.

Curated
by Converge Gallery director, John Yogodzinski, these works target
“almost every manner of sexual adventure with a sophistication and deep
sense of humor that takes no prisoners,” says Yogodzinski. “These works
offer rewards that will leave viewers and collectors of art and erotica
in stitches and possibly chains. Matthew Rose proves again he is one of
our leading collage workers, taking the aesthetic of cut and paste, and
pushing past the gates armed with fleshy poetry.”

Matthew’s
last exhibition at Converge (2013), The Letters, comprised 333 works
each mailed to the gallery. Some pieces were missives, others fragments
from various alphabets, faux books and his award-winning
floor-to-ceiling lexicon the “SPECIAL K WORDS.”

Matthew
Rose’s collages, text works, prints, drawings and altered books and
objects are widely collected both privately and publicly throughout
Europe and the US. Currently Matthew Rose’s “Self Improvement Alphabet,”
a 26-piece collage installation, is on view at The Cornell Museum,
Delray Beach, Florida. He also conceived and launched the global
project A Book About Death. His works have been featured in Axis of Evil
(Qualicatica 2004); Masters of Collage (Lark, 2009); Cutting Edges
(Gestaten, 2010); and the artist is currently involved in producing two
books : Weekend Plans (Burning Boy 2015) and As Is, (Burning Boy 2015) a
collection of written and photographic essays about Rose’s 30 years
making and exhibiting art.

“Pressure Washing” will
be on view at Converge Gallery March 6 through April 25, 2015, with an
opening on Friday 6 March, beginning at 6 pm.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Willie Baronet, a Dallas artist and Stan Richards Professor of Creative Advertising at SMU's Meadows School of the Arts, has been buying and collecting signs made by homeless people for more than 20 years.

From Yahoo News: "It's an art installation sure to evoke a spectrum of emotions: from sorrow and surprise to humor and hope. Whatever the feeling, Willie Baronet wants his exhibit at New York University to bring "the issue of homelessness to light in a unique manner to hopefully change people’s hearts and minds on how they view the homeless." Baronet, a Texas artist and advertising professor, drove across the U.S. last July purchasing signs from panhandlers in 24 cities. His "We Are All Homeless" exhibit features 260 signs he acquired as he met with homeless people from Seattle to New York City.
The NYU exhibit – his first from the coast-to-coast project – is hosted by HELP USA and will be on display through Jan. 24 in the Kimmel Center for University Life Stovall Family Gallery.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

For the past year and a half, Danielle Voirin has been pasting up her photos in the streets of Paris, and often re-photographing them as they deteriorate. In Le Brykln show, she has included some of those posters (which will be pasted in the street at the end of the show) as well as prints of those posters after other people and the weather has altered them. Along with that is a selection of her recent cyanotypes, an extension of the same series.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

A woman held up a placard that translates to "I am Charlie" as she and others gathered at the Place de la Republique in Paris. Credit Joel Saget/Agence France-Presse / Getty Images. Image Courtesy: The New York Times. #JeSuisCharlieCharlie Hebdo : Download Je Suis Charlie. Please share. Please be kind to each other.

"Why create lingerie?" recalls Zion. "Well, I can remember a time when I was working as a beauty consultant in the States. Every morning I helped my clients look fabulous that day; we were close and shared birthdays. So I wanted to not just give them a gift, but make them one. And so I designed and created these lace lingerie boy shorts!"

The designer then asked his women friends and other male friends what they thought about unisex lingerie – and taking it to the world. The response was strong enough for Zion to launch a site and a business. While still developing the business and expanding the lines for both men and women and the all purpose unisex modesl, Zion is out to change the way people dress and underdress, even if you can't see it : Zion's FaceBook Page.

Monday, November 3, 2014

From THIS IS COLOSSAL : Artist Jim Bachor (previously)
continued his guerilla effort to remedy Chicago’s pothole problem by
creating a number of flower mosaics in streets around the city. Bachor
installed four mosaics through this fall while the weather cooperated,
but as things get wet and cooler we’ll probably see a bit less of his,
uhm, street art. I’m not sure if any of these are still around, but he
keeps a list of photos and addresses where each piece was installed. Bachor opens a new exhibition of mosiac art at Packer Schopf Gallery titled “Jentaculum” early next month.

About

The
Cairo Dish-Painting Initiative is a collaborative art project launched
by Jason Stoneking for the purpose of helping to beautify the Cairo
skyline.

(Arabic below)
The Cairo Dish-Painting Initiative is a project launched by Jason
Stoneking, in cooperation with the Artellewa Art Space, as part of his
residency there in the fall of 2014. It was inspired by a conversation
with Egyptian artist Hany Hommos on his balcony in Cairo, when he said
that the endless sea of dirty brown satellite dishes made the skyline
depressing to look at. Jason suggested
that maybe something could be done about this that would be fun and
empowering for the people in the community. So along with the help and
support of the entire Artellewa team, Jason and Hany made their way
first to the roof of the Artellewa building in the Ard-El-Lewa
neighborhood of Cairo, and painted the satellite dishes in bright,
day-glow colors. The plan in the coming weeks is to approach several
other buildings in the area about painting the dishes on their rooftops.
And in time, the hope is that this idea would catch on and spread
across Cairo. That the citizens of this vibrant city would help brighten
their skyline, and announce to the world that the signals of hope,
happiness, and free expression are the ones that they want to receive.

Monday, August 4, 2014

Amongst the souvenir items, tents and lemonade stands in Kiev's Maidan, the Independence Square where demonstrators were shot and killed last year, are rolls of Vladimir Putin Toilet Paper, probably for sale. July 6, 2014: From The Economic Times.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Scott Blake, an Omaha, Nebraska artist has gently turned shoplifting around and dropped his limited edition, signed and numbered silkscreen printed tee shirts at an Omaha, Nebraska Target store.

The tee shirts are typical of the artist's subversive artwork. Blake created "bar code" art years ago: He's made a bar code portrait of Andy Warhol out of Campbell's Soup Can barcodes. He's done Marilyn Monroe out of DVD bar codes from her films. Scan the barcode and a scene from her film plays. And he's upgraded his tech portraits with QR codes.

Blake's Shopdrop tee shirt was purchased (see above) by the artist's friend, Larry Ferguson, for $13.90 and Mr. Ferguson even saved $1 on the purchase. The shirt comes a signed and dated and numbered tag. The sale will go towards Target's bottom line earnings in the upcoming quarter. Check out more of Scott Blake's intriguing work here: http://www.barcodeart.com/

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Piece of wreckage from the Malaysia
Airlines jet downed over eastern Ukraine last week shows damage,
including shrapnel holes and blistered paint, that is consistent with a
hit from a fragmenting warhead, according to consultants with
IHS-Jane’s.

Here's an analysis of the wreckage from the point of view of a ballistic and missile expert looking at the fragments impact on the skin of the airplane. Analysis.

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Metamorphosis is the governing process of life: Change. In “Metamorphic” Converge Gallery presents seven artists whose works deftly explore the vast metaphor and process of change using a range of materials reclaimed and re-purposed from their original context.

Cast off, found and everyday objects are married thoughtfully here with post-modern artistic concerns – concerns that dig away at meaning in an oftentimes meaningless world. The results by these international artists offer a fresh and startling perspective on an often stale worldview.

"Metamorphic" thrusts us into a very contemporary philosophical (and often humorous) dialogue, launching us into a new and challenging visual landscape that upends our experience with our familiarity with these “things we know.” Our awareness is reframed; we are transported to a different if not unique perspective. Familiarity will never be the same again.

Monday, July 7, 2014

The vibrant world of Victor Matussiere, young French photographer whose portraits, and photos covering art, fashion, product design, graphic arts, still life and the everyday are quite the buzz. Victor runs a gorgeous studio in Montparnasse. He's funny and serious and a technical pro. And quite the cook! See if you can spot him in the kitchen photo above. See more of his sensational work here: Victor Matussiere Studio.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

It is fair to say that Warhol owned Campbell’s Soup cans, Coke bottles
and Marilyn the way Pollock owned paint drips, Hopper hotels and lonely
diners, and Koons polished steel balloon poodles. It might also be fair
to say that Joseph Nechvatal, an American artist who works in both New
York and Paris, and takes a post-conceptualist approach to art making,
owns a human aperture – the anus. prOtOcOls nOn (nO rules), Nechvatal’s
current Paris exhibition at Galerie Richard, brings together seven
large format works of cosmic anal images produced via his homemade
computer virus. Nechvatal employs a system of computer-assisted robotic
spray guns to paint the final pieces on luscious white velvet canvas.

www.exposicionesmapfrearte.comHis genius
for composition, extraordinary visual intuition and ability to capture the
most elusive and significant instants as they happened made Henri
Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) one of the greatest photographers of the
20th century. Throughout a career spent crisscrossing the world, turning
his gaze on the great moments of history, he mingled poetry with a powerful
sense of testimony.

His work falls into three main periods.
During the first, from 1926 to 1935, Cartier-Bresson fraternised with the
Surrealists, began working as a photographer and went on his first major
trips. The second, from 1936 to 1946, was marked by his political
commitment, his work for the Communist press and his experience in films.
The third, 1947 to 1970, covered the creation of the cooperative Magnum
Photos to the time when he stopped doing photo reports.

This retrospective exhibition of the photographer known as "eye of his
time" retraces his career chronologically throughout the selection of
vintage prints. It presents his most iconic works as well as the unknown
ones. It aims to give a new focus on his career going beyond the idea
of the "decisive moment" that until now has been the key to understand his
work. It reveals us that there was not just one but several
Cartier-Bressons

Besides, Royal Secrets, the artist has launched a number of great exhibitions (and great titles) such as: Slack, Pervert's Tailgate, Swamp Meat, Pro Jet, Confectionery, Sourdough, Slax, Manswers for Mobsters, Not Sure, My Day at the Mall.

The artist, right, in front of the shadow of her piece in Paris.

Her titles for works are intriguing and poetic and the works never cease to thrill. Porter is pushing the limits of what sculpture and an aesthetic experience can be. See more of Laura Porter's work here: Laura Porter.

Friday, May 30, 2014

“Deconstructing the Sayre Barn: Photographs by Ulf Skogsbergh” is a full on installation of photographs that examine the Sayre Barn, part of the Southampton Village Historical Museum.

The opening takes place Saturday, June 14 from 4-6 PM at the Barn at the Rogers Mansion
Museum Complex, 17 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, Southampton Village.

"The restoration of the Sayre Barn, is a major project undertaken by the Museum," says Skogsbergh, an internationally known photographer and musician/composer who lives on the East End of Long Island. "The Barn is reopening to the public with an installation of my large-scale photographs relating to the barn and farm tools, once housed in the barn."

Skogsberg notes that the space is enormous but his photographs which measure up to 13 feet for this exhibition will likely fill it: "Right now I have two 4x13 ft to finish but but I'm showing 32 prints in all – and most are about 48 x 60 inches - with eight photos 8 ft long or larger." The artist's enormous super high resolution features are collected widely in Europe, particularly Switzerland.

According to the Museum: "The 1825 Sayre Barn was under reconstruction for one year and will
reopen with an exhibit of photographs of the Sayre Barn taken
before the barn was dismantled. Mr. Ulf Skogsbergh specializes in highly-detailed, large format photography (20-plus feet in length). His works are
well-known and collected throughout Europe."